farming female castellan

Chapter 374 Telescope

Before the county government got off work, the master book registered the name and quantity of the seeds, and asked Sicang to weigh them, check and accept them, and put them into the warehouse.

Yan and Bo reported to Chen Fan their experiences in the past few days, including the road conditions they observed.

Chen Fan also called the justice Cao Dezheng over, and showed the documents of the Ministry of Punishment to Zhang Ci and the others.

The county lieutenant shook his head and said, "It's been several months, right? It's winter."

The county magistrate said: "My lord is pregnant, it's not suitable to watch this kind of scene, just let us take care of it."

Chen Fan nodded: "Master Bo and Master Cao supervised the beheading. You can arrange it."

After work, Chen Fan and Zhang Ci returned to the backyard.Mo Jian came over: "Madam, master, the lenses have been brought here."

Zhang Ci was surprised: "The speed is quite fast. When did you get home?"

"At noon today, Madam said that we will take it apart when you come back."

Zhang Ci opened the box, and there was another cardboard box inside, which was well fixed with a paper shelf.When I opened the box, there were cloth bags covered with grass, some were yellow and some were red.

Zhang Ci couldn't wait to take out a lens to watch, and Chen Fan also watched from the side.

"It's still very smooth and translucent." Zhang Ci said.

"That's it?" Chen Fan looked at him.

"Shouldn't I just look at the workmanship first?" Zhang Ci smiled, "The effect of looking at things is more obvious during the day."

He held a convex lens in his hand, and when he took a picture on the book, the words became very large.

"The convex lens also makes you, a son of a family, so strange?" Chen Fan laughed at him.

"Master of my aristocratic family doesn't often use concave and convex mirrors, let alone this kind of transparent one?"

Chen Fan asked him, "Have you ever used ice cubes to hold fire on paper under the sun?"

"I've played it, but I lost interest after playing it twice. We always have plenty of flints and fire pockets, and making fire with ice cubes is just for fun. After so many years, I have long forgotten those things." Zhang Ci took out again A concave lens, looked at the book.

"The words became very small, but very clear." As he spoke, he pointed the two mirrors at the ink paper, and his breathing suddenly became heavy.

He switched the positions of the two lenses, stood up suddenly, and walked out the door.Mo Jian hurriedly followed.

When Chen Fan walked into the yard, the master and servant had long since disappeared.

Feng An came over with a puzzled look on his face: "Ma'am, what are the two of them doing on the roof?"

Chen Fan smiled: "They found a fun one, and they ran up when they got excited."

"What does the master mean by this gesture?" He looked at Zhang Ci with one hand in front and the other behind, and then squinted his eyes for a while: "What are you holding in your hand?"

The light was a bit dim, and the lenses were transparent, so he might not be able to see it.

Zhang Ci and Mo Jian just stayed on the roof like this, until it was completely dark, and then they fell to the ground unsatisfied.

Feng An slapped Mo Jian's arm: "I don't know how to persuade the master to come down early, it's getting dark, what can we see?"

"It's amazing to see something. I'll take you to the roof tomorrow to have a look." Mo Jian was very excited.Feng An slapped it up again: "Do you still look like a guard?"

Chen Fan made a relief with a smile: "Let's eat first, tomorrow Mo Jian will accompany the master to ponder over it."

Mo Jian happily agreed, took Feng An's arm and walked towards the dining room: "Let me tell you..."

Chen Fan and Zhang Ci walked to the inner courtyard, Chaoyun and Muyu began to set meals.

"Are there many telescopes in your hometown?" Zhang Ci always looked at her without surprise.

Chen Fan smiled: "There are many. I have a big telescope at home, and I can see the moon. The moon on the [-]th is really like a crystal ball, crystal clear, and there are small sparkling bubbles on the surface. the same."

That's how she felt the first time she looked through the telescope, and the image was indelible in her mind.

After eating, Zhang Ci was busy looking for materials and trying to fix the lens.After Chen Fan washed up, he sat on a chair and watched him busy.

Zhang Ci looked up, saw her sitting there, and blurted out, "Why do you keep looking at me like this?"

"My husband looks good." Chen Fan teased him.

"You think it's funny to see me like a headless fly?"

"Husband is very organized, even if he is busy, he looks very good-looking."

Zhang Ci stroked his arms twice: "Why do I feel shivering all over my body?"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "What material do you want to use for the pipe?"

"Wooden pipe, or iron pipe. It's easy to fix it directly, but it's a bit troublesome to make it removable." Zhang Ci has a lot of ideas.

"Let's fix it directly. There are several pairs of lenses. Make a few more pairs of binoculars. It's not convenient to change the lenses temporarily."

Zhang Ci thought for a while: "Then let's make a fixed one, and do it tomorrow." He got up to wash up.

When he got into bed, Chen Fan couldn't help joking: "I thought you'd be busy until midnight."

"It's possible to be busy all night," Zhang Ci actually followed her words, "but you can't stay up late, so I still come here to accompany you to rest."

"I sleep mine, you work on yours."

"That can't be done, it's too desolate to be busy alone." Zhang Ci hugged Chen Fan.

The next day, the yamen servants posted notices at the bulletin boards at the gates of the four cities, and the common people surrounded them one after another.

"What's written on it?"

Those who could read began to read the notice, saying that the approval document from the Ministry of Punishment had arrived in Yuanshuo County, and the county government wanted to publicly execute Guo Xunkai and the gang leaders.

"Now that I think about it, it's been a few months since the trial, and I've already forgotten about that incident."

"When?"

"Ninth day of October."

Back in the backyard at noon, Chen Fan found a spring, put it in the lid of a bamboo tube, and said to Zhang Ci: Make the lid and the mouth of the tube into such a pattern, one side is concave and the other is convex, and it can be fixed by twisting it around. The cover is more secure.

Zhang Ci has strong hands-on ability. He drew a few circles of lines in the lid with a pen, and then carved them with a knife.After engraving, paint ink on the convex surface and cover it on the bamboo tube, so that the ink lines on the mouth of the tube are all glued together.

Chen Fan laughed.

Zhang Ci touched his nose in embarrassment, took another bamboo tube, and found a piece of copper wire, hooped it around the mouth of the tube like a spring, and carved it with a knife according to the imprint.

Madam Xu came over to exchange tea and asked him what he was doing.

Zhang Ci told her: "I want to have the same mark on the lid."

"Just paint it with some color. Once the lid is put on, it will be stained with color." Madam Xu didn't think about it.

"Paint it on and it will stick together."

Nanny Xu turned and went out, and came back after a while, holding a bowl of wet straw ash in her hand.She carefully pressed the ashes into the recess with a copper wire, and snapped the lid on.

"Let it sit for a day or two to make it darker, and you can still see traces even if it is pasted together. If grass ash doesn't work, try other dyes."

Zhang Ci went to audition for the film.In two days, he tried to match and adjust the distances of the three pairs of lenses repeatedly, and got a satisfactory result. He drew the picture of the monocular on the paper and marked the data.

The bamboo tube had been stored for two days. Zhang Ci pulled out the lid and saw a circle of black lines printed inside.

"It really works?" He was very happy, and immediately picked up the knife and carved it.

After engraving, Zhang Ci tried to screw the cover on for two turns, but felt that it could not be unscrewed, and then pulled it out, but the cover did not come off.

"Haha, it's really strong, and the airtightness is better, and the wine jar can do the same in the future." He also drew inferences from one instance to promote the use.

He looked at Chen Fan: "A cover can be made at both ends of the telescope, and the mirror is pressed around the edge, so that the lens will not fall out more easily."

Chen Fan glanced outside and kissed him on the cheek: "My husband is awesome."

Zhang Ci blushed: "The door is still open, be careful not to be seen."

Chen Fan covered his mouth and sat back on the chair.Zhang Ci drew the details of the port on paper, and then took the ink to the blacksmith's shop to finalize the building.

The old place in the county started to set up a platform, saw it coming and going, and spread the news all over the county.

On the ninth day of the ninth day, the execution ground was packed.The county lieutenant read out the document from the Ministry of Punishment, announcing that the prisoner would be beheaded on the spot for public display.

"Why didn't the county magistrate come? She has a guilty conscience and dare not face it?" Someone in the crowd shouted.

The county lieutenant wrote the document to the crowd: "This is a document from the Ministry of Punishment, there is no doubt about it."

"The case file was sent up by the county government. How can the Ministry of Punishment find out the unjust, false and wrongly decided cases?"

Qing Ji flew up to him, and before the people had time to exclaim, he brought the shouter to the high platform.

The county lieutenant looked at him: "The case is being tried in public. The victim's statement and witness testimony are available. You kept silent at the time and did not appeal later. The execution is going to be executed today. What are you shouting here?"

The man's neck was stuck: "We have been running around, but the county government has covered the sky with one hand, and no one is willing to testify for my father. They are all busy making trouble."

The county lieutenant still looked at him: "You said that the father was wronged?"

"Yes!"

"I'll give you a chance to write the complaint now, write clearly who wronged your father, and write clearly what happened to the bones in your yard." The county captain raised his hand, and Qing Ji put a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the man. before.

(End of this chapter)